L
Lais Pereira
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 1
Citations - 133
Lais Pereira is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Leishmania & Leishmania donovani. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 100 citations. Previous affiliations of Lais Pereira include Johns Hopkins University.
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Gut Microbes Egested during Bites of Infected Sand Flies Augment Severity of Leishmaniasis via Inflammasome-Derived IL-1β
Ranadhir Dey,Amritanshu B. Joshi,Fabiano Oliveira,Lais Pereira,Lais Pereira,Anderson B. Guimarães-Costa,Tiago D. Serafim,Waldionê de Castro,Iliano V. Coutinho-Abreu,Parna Bhattacharya,Shannon Townsend,Hamide Aslan,Alec Perkins,Subir Karmakar,Nevien Ismail,Morgan Karetnick,Claudio Meneses,Robert Duncan,Hira L. Nakhasi,Jesus G. Valenzuela,Shaden Kamhawi +20 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that gut microbes from the sand fly are egested into host skin alongside Leishmania parasites, indicating that both gut microbiota and IL-1β are important for the establishment of Leishmaniasis infections.